What is Gmail Unsubscriber?
Read on and find out!
And I was just writing about security mishaps earlier today. What better way to follow that up than with an app that accesses your Gmail!
Before I go any further, I need to emphasise (and the app will do this too) that nothing untoward is intended with this one. If the sound of an app that reads from your Gmail puts you on edge, then I commend you for having good sense. But this is a utility of convenience, nothing more. I personally have so many emails from companies I'm not interested in. Could be a mattress company I ordered from years ago, could be a holiday park we once registered to, could be a telecoms company trying to sell me broadband, you name it. I don't feel I have the time to go through my emails to find each one to go through the unsubscribe process. And so I put Gmail Unsubscriber together.
It's a tool that uses the official Gmail API to look through your inbox, pick up any emails with an Unsubscribe link at the bottom, collate them, and present them to you with an easy way to unsubscribe from them. You'll still need to jump through whatever hoops they'll have waiting for you on the other side of the link, but it's a lot easier than the old manual way of doing it. You can choose a time frame to go back (7 days/30 days/90 days/last year/all time) and optionally, a specific folder. It'll then run off and look through emails within those ranges and return likely candidates for unsubscribing from. It orders them in descending order of most irritating (number of emails received). My top example is the supermarket Morrisons who emailed me 14 times over the last 3 months. You can select multiple candidates and then go through each one-by-one to banish them from bothering your inbox. It uses the same URL that the email would have sent you to.
There's no backend to this app besides your browser calling the Gmail API, and the Gmail API returning data back to the browser. It uses the gmail.read-only API scope which has absolutely no create/update/delete privileges. All the logic is carried out on your local machine.
It's still in testing at the moment so the Gmail login won't work for all yet, but have a look at https://gmail-unsubscriber.afterimage-dev.com/.